Tag: California

The proponents of the “The Compassionate and Sensible Access Act” filed their ballot initiative on Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Unlike the 12 page “California Craft Cannabis Initiative” filed on the same day, “The Compassionate and Sensible Access Act” is just one page. From our layman’s reading of it, it sounds […]

The “California Craft Cannabis Initiative” was filed by proponents Heather Burke and Omar Figueroa. The filing of the initiative is the first step in the process to get it on the ballot for 2016 and doesn’t necessarily indicate anything about public support for the initiative. Anyone can file the paperwork for an […]

Dispensary locating start-up WeedMaps.com is committing $2 million to get marijuana legalized in California. A campaign committee called “Californians for Sensible Reform” received $1 million on Friday, April 17, 2015. The company will also put up another $1 million to a political action committee called “Californians for Sensible Reform PAC“, which […]

Two California marijuana legalization groups have agreed to collaborate and are reaching out to other groups “in hopes of creating a single, unified [cannabis legalization] initiative for California in 2016”. The two California marijuana initiative groups, Americans For Policy Reform, the group behind the Marijuana Control, Legalization and Revenue Act of […]

A newly released study from California Department of Fish and Wildlife is showing that the increasing number of marijuana grow sites in Northern California is contributing to the states drought woes. And in many cases, water demands are exceeding the streamflow of local creeks, which if allowed to continued at […]

The latest survey (March, 2015) from Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) is showing that Californian’s support for legalizing marijuana is at 53%. This is a record level of support in marijuana legalization in California since PPIC began asking the question in 2010. Among likely voters, the support for legalizing […]

“Kamala Harris not opposed to legalizing marijuana” At a meeting with the press Feb 18, 2015, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, the state’s top cop and Democratic front-runner in the race for a U.S. Senate seat next year, said that she has “no moral objection” to legalizing the recreational use of […]